Event Dates and Time
Please note that the event times shown below are for Central Standard Time.
Start: 4pm CST on Thursday, May 18
End: 8pm CST on Saturday, May 20
Registration Rates:
In-Person
- Member Prices (In-Person)
- Non-Student $100
- Student $40
- Non-Student Un/Underemployed $70
- Nonmember Prices (In-Person)
- Non-Student $125
- Student $40
- Non-Student Un/underemployed $70
Virtual
- Member Prices (Virtual)
- Non-Student $40
- Student $20
- Non-Student Un/Underemployed $30
- Nonmember Prices (Virtual)
- Non-Student $40
- Student $20
- Non-Student Un/Underemployed $30
Event Information:
In our third year of a global pandemic, we are stretched thin, suffering touches us all, and our wells of empathy seem to be running dry. And yet, despite this suffering many of us are also paying closer attention to our own well-being and to the well-being of those around us. In this spirit of exploration and cautious hope, the theme of the 2023 Society for Economic Anthropology meeting will be “Well-Being and the Common Good.” Drawing in part from a growing “anthropology of the good” (coined by Joel Robbins), we seek papers that challenge us to rethink the economy as one part of a total experience aimed at making life worthwhile. The anthropology of the good asks us to reflect on the values we hold as economic anthropologists and how these values lead us to investigate (or set aside) topics like well-being or the common good. Bringing these topics to the foreground of economic research can help us understand where we have fallen short and where we might succeed in efforts to study, reveal, highlight, and perhaps help people to achieve well-being and the common good.
Please join us to explore this topic at the SEA’s annual meeting from May 18 to 20, 2023 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
The Society for Economic Anthropology welcomes and encourage papers that showcase the range of anthropological efforts, including the work of archaeologists, linguistic anthropologists, biological anthropologists, medical anthropologists, and applied anthropologists among others
If you have any questions, please contact the meeting chair, John Millhauser (millhauser@ncsu.edu).
Conference details and the full call for papers are available on the SEA website.